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Monday, June 14, 2010
Blog 16: Final Reflection
Well i enjoyed eng 102 because of the creativity of the assignments. I have never done a supernatural theme before or any theme in a class for that matter. Interesting how we did all are assignments on blogs for the whole semester. We looked at movies, heard some interesting poems and we wrote on a poem of are own choice. I would recommend this class to one of my friends because he is going to major in journalism but the sad part is that he doesn't go to Laguardia. I hope eng 103 will be as fun but i doubt having to write research papers will be so enthusiastic.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Blog 15: Final Draft "In the Forest of the Night"
In The Forest Of The Night
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes was born on April 16 1984 and is a writer of fantasy dealing with adult situations. Amelia became famous at the age of fifteen when she published her first book "In the Forest of the Night". Since her first book she has written eleven more books all critically acclaimed by magazines like Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker. She even managed to get an article about her in the USA Today newspaper. Amelia got a lucky break publishing her book because her teacher was also an literary agent and pushed her manuscript to publishing companies. After high school she went to University of Massachusetts with a surprising double major degree in english and psychology. "In the Forest of the Night" its about a vampire who overcomes her problems and learns to deal with her past. The story has a hero's quest and has symbols that have a pacific meaning to almost each item.
The story is about a three hundred year old vampire named Risika who lives in Concord, Massachusetts. In her home Risika awakes to a black rose laying on her bed with a card telling her to "stay in her place" and she goes into a flashback of a time in 1701 when she was human and her name was different. Rachel Weatere was Risika's original name before she was transformed. She is calming her brother Alexander down because he believes he has telepathic powers causing a fire to happen burning their little sister Lynette. Rachel talks him out of his crazy babble but she suspects that somehow he might be right. Risika snaps out of her daydream and ponders how the rose came to her but she suspects who did it.
She explains that she went hunting in New York City but in another vampire's territory. While she is stalking a pray, a human minion of a vampire interferes with Risika and the female meal. So Risika then attacks the minion and finds out who he belongs to but she already suspected it. The dead minion belonged to Aubrey, who is an old and powerful vampire. Aubrey had left her the card and the black rose so Risikia had burned both objects, put them in a plastic bag and dropped it off at Aubrey's usual hideout. Risika then daydreams again of the same black rose when Aubrey appeared to her and her family in 1701.
She describes that when she touched the rose she had cut herself on a piece of thorn causing Aubrey to stare at her wound in such a manor that it scared her but he leaves immediately. The next day Rachel finds Alexander sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night. She comes to find out that he isn't alone but he is with two other people. She see's Aubrey and a mysteries lady dressed in black but gets noticed by them real quick. Alexander begs for them to leave them in peace but Aubrey kills Alexander by stabbing him in the back with a knife. The lady in black named Ather kills Rachel and gives birth to Risika.
After waking up from her dream she gets another strange letter but this time the aura around it is different. It's not registering to her as a vampire she would recognize but on the paper it says Rachel. It confuses her because no one knows her human accept for Ather, Aubrey and her dead family. Ather is long gone and Aubrey's method of torturing someone is a lot more destructive. So this leaves her confused and brings on another flashback of now Risika fighting Aubrey but losing with a scare that will never heal. So know after wanting revenge for this wound she figures out after 300 years how to defeat Aubrey in a battle so she challenges him at his favorite cafe.
Aubrey tries to use the blade on her but she manages to over power him taking the blade from him. She then uses it not to get revenge for destroying her life and her families but to embarrass Aubrey by showing that he is just a weak vampire and leaves him with a similar scare he left her many years ago. After the battle the aura that had left her the note showed up and right before she attacked him, Risika saw who it was. Her brother Alexander had been alive the whole time for three hundred years and didn't say a word to her. Alexander explains that his telepathic abilities mixed with witchcraft kept him alive and made him immortal like she was. Alexander then tells Rachel that the reason he didn't show his face to her was that she had become a monster killing the innocent. Risika then tells Alexander that Rachel is dead and that their is nothing that can change it. But each moment of her life she wishes it had all been different circumstances.
The hero's quest was pretty straight forward in this short novel because she went after her biggest enemy and defeated him. She had gone threw a few challenges to beat him because she had to become a vampire which is the threshold. Then the revelation occurred were she realized how to beat Aubrey. She ended up taking his main weapon and using it on him to defeat him. Then their is atonement when her brother shows up and is disgusted at what she becomes and she feels bad for what he has seen. Finale at the end which is the return as Joseph Campbell puts it, she states that she is who she is now and that their is no one that can stop it, so live your life your way.
There are a few symbols that stand out in the book like the knife, the black rose, Rachel's name and the letter. The knife is symbolic because it shows power to the person that holds it like the sword excalibar. Then you got the black rose because it symbolizes death coming for you like a calling card. Rachel's name is another symbol because having your name taken from you by force and their is nothing you can do to stop it can sort of in a way demoralize you. The last symbol is the letter with her name on it causing her to feel confused and sadden by it because she is having thoughts of her human side and it can also mean that no matter were you go your name will always follow you even though it has been changed.
"In the Forest of the Night" is a must read book that you cannot pass bye. I have read a lot of books and I would have to say that this is one of my top ten favorite books of all time. I haven't read the twlight books and I never will but if you like reading them or even the True Blood adaptation books then you should at least read "In the Forest of the Night". Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is a magnificent writer and if she can write so good at a early age imagine what she can write when she is much older.
Work Cited
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In The Forest Of The Night.New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. Print.
"Amelia Atwater-Rhodes". Wikipedia. 2010. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 11 June 2010.
"Monomyth". Wikipedia. 2010. Wilomedia Foundation, Inc.. 11 June 2010.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes was born on April 16 1984 and is a writer of fantasy dealing with adult situations. Amelia became famous at the age of fifteen when she published her first book "In the Forest of the Night". Since her first book she has written eleven more books all critically acclaimed by magazines like Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker. She even managed to get an article about her in the USA Today newspaper. Amelia got a lucky break publishing her book because her teacher was also an literary agent and pushed her manuscript to publishing companies. After high school she went to University of Massachusetts with a surprising double major degree in english and psychology. "In the Forest of the Night" its about a vampire who overcomes her problems and learns to deal with her past. The story has a hero's quest and has symbols that have a pacific meaning to almost each item.
The story is about a three hundred year old vampire named Risika who lives in Concord, Massachusetts. In her home Risika awakes to a black rose laying on her bed with a card telling her to "stay in her place" and she goes into a flashback of a time in 1701 when she was human and her name was different. Rachel Weatere was Risika's original name before she was transformed. She is calming her brother Alexander down because he believes he has telepathic powers causing a fire to happen burning their little sister Lynette. Rachel talks him out of his crazy babble but she suspects that somehow he might be right. Risika snaps out of her daydream and ponders how the rose came to her but she suspects who did it.
She explains that she went hunting in New York City but in another vampire's territory. While she is stalking a pray, a human minion of a vampire interferes with Risika and the female meal. So Risika then attacks the minion and finds out who he belongs to but she already suspected it. The dead minion belonged to Aubrey, who is an old and powerful vampire. Aubrey had left her the card and the black rose so Risikia had burned both objects, put them in a plastic bag and dropped it off at Aubrey's usual hideout. Risika then daydreams again of the same black rose when Aubrey appeared to her and her family in 1701.
She describes that when she touched the rose she had cut herself on a piece of thorn causing Aubrey to stare at her wound in such a manor that it scared her but he leaves immediately. The next day Rachel finds Alexander sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night. She comes to find out that he isn't alone but he is with two other people. She see's Aubrey and a mysteries lady dressed in black but gets noticed by them real quick. Alexander begs for them to leave them in peace but Aubrey kills Alexander by stabbing him in the back with a knife. The lady in black named Ather kills Rachel and gives birth to Risika.
After waking up from her dream she gets another strange letter but this time the aura around it is different. It's not registering to her as a vampire she would recognize but on the paper it says Rachel. It confuses her because no one knows her human accept for Ather, Aubrey and her dead family. Ather is long gone and Aubrey's method of torturing someone is a lot more destructive. So this leaves her confused and brings on another flashback of now Risika fighting Aubrey but losing with a scare that will never heal. So know after wanting revenge for this wound she figures out after 300 years how to defeat Aubrey in a battle so she challenges him at his favorite cafe.
Aubrey tries to use the blade on her but she manages to over power him taking the blade from him. She then uses it not to get revenge for destroying her life and her families but to embarrass Aubrey by showing that he is just a weak vampire and leaves him with a similar scare he left her many years ago. After the battle the aura that had left her the note showed up and right before she attacked him, Risika saw who it was. Her brother Alexander had been alive the whole time for three hundred years and didn't say a word to her. Alexander explains that his telepathic abilities mixed with witchcraft kept him alive and made him immortal like she was. Alexander then tells Rachel that the reason he didn't show his face to her was that she had become a monster killing the innocent. Risika then tells Alexander that Rachel is dead and that their is nothing that can change it. But each moment of her life she wishes it had all been different circumstances.
The hero's quest was pretty straight forward in this short novel because she went after her biggest enemy and defeated him. She had gone threw a few challenges to beat him because she had to become a vampire which is the threshold. Then the revelation occurred were she realized how to beat Aubrey. She ended up taking his main weapon and using it on him to defeat him. Then their is atonement when her brother shows up and is disgusted at what she becomes and she feels bad for what he has seen. Finale at the end which is the return as Joseph Campbell puts it, she states that she is who she is now and that their is no one that can stop it, so live your life your way.
There are a few symbols that stand out in the book like the knife, the black rose, Rachel's name and the letter. The knife is symbolic because it shows power to the person that holds it like the sword excalibar. Then you got the black rose because it symbolizes death coming for you like a calling card. Rachel's name is another symbol because having your name taken from you by force and their is nothing you can do to stop it can sort of in a way demoralize you. The last symbol is the letter with her name on it causing her to feel confused and sadden by it because she is having thoughts of her human side and it can also mean that no matter were you go your name will always follow you even though it has been changed.
"In the Forest of the Night" is a must read book that you cannot pass bye. I have read a lot of books and I would have to say that this is one of my top ten favorite books of all time. I haven't read the twlight books and I never will but if you like reading them or even the True Blood adaptation books then you should at least read "In the Forest of the Night". Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is a magnificent writer and if she can write so good at a early age imagine what she can write when she is much older.
Work Cited
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In The Forest Of The Night.New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. Print.
"Amelia Atwater-Rhodes". Wikipedia. 2010. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 11 June 2010
"Monomyth". Wikipedia. 2010. Wilomedia Foundation, Inc.. 11 June 2010
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